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Thirty-two year-old Gaurav Sharma is running for Parliament in India. Previously a martial arts instructor for the Mumbai Police, Sharma is now climbing up the sides of buildings in a Spider-Man costume, asking for votes. Read more...

Lupin the Third is getting a live-action film. While Kotaku previously published an image of lead actor Shun Oguriin his Lupin costume, earlier today full cast photos were released. Let's have a look!Read more...

That's not a dog in a Nintendo sweater. You are looking at groomed, dyed, and trimmed dog hair. Let's call this pooch "Yoshi Dog."Read more...

The WWE is reporting that James Brian Hellwig, better known as The Ultimate Warrior, has passed away at the age of 54. Just days ago, he was present at Wrestlemania 30.Read more...

Based on a recent act of fight stick destruction, Stick Chucker doesn't care if you win or lose a game of Street Fighter. It only cares how far, and how hard, you can throw your stick once you lose.Read more...

Anna Lakisova is a freelance Ukrainian artist who has worked in video games for the last few years. Read more...

EA's reign as the Worst Company In America (note: as voted by readers of a website, not every human American) was ended this year, as the publishing giant was knocked out in the first round by Time-Warner Cable. So who went on to take EA's crown?Read more...

Australian indie developer League of Geeks announced the upcoming release of Armello, a digital board game and strategy-RPG hybrid due to launch in 2015 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS.

As we previously saw at GDC, gameplay in Armello unfolds in the context of a multiplayer board game with card-based mechanics. Players choose among multiple playable clans, and can forge temporary alliances with other players as they quest for a ruling seat at the royal palace. Defining gameplay components include a day/night cycle, a dice-rolling combat system, and an in-depth equipment system that can be managed between turns.

Armello seeks $200,000 AUD to reach its initial funding goal. Ports for Android and Windows tablets are also being considered, pending stretch goal funding.

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So, some guy thought it would be cuhraazy to film himself smashing a new Samsung Galaxy S5 with a hammer. I wonder, though, if he expected his hammer to hit something that it probably shouldn't have hit.Read more...

There's a new Family game for mobile, called Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff. It's not out yet, but for a few hours earlier today, it was accidentally made available on New Zealand's app store. Something FOX was not very happy about.Read more...

Hackathons are all the rage these days, but they can be kind of stupid. So some NYU students put together one of their own. Metro New York brings us some of the best ideas from the Stupid Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon.Read more...

If you missed it, all 39 minutes of today's Nintendo Direct covering the next Smash Bros. game is right here for you to watch. Come for the character reveals—like Charizard!—and stay for the wacky fighting styles of The Villager and the Wii Fit goons.Read more...

One of the more odd delights on Nintendo's Wii console was a two-game series called Endless Ocean. The peaceful games let players virtually scuba dive and take pictures of the wildlife below the surface of the sea. Enter World of Diving, a new game about pretty much the same thing, except it's first-person, you can play it on a computer and, if you'd like, you can play in virtual reality.Read more...

Nintendo's running a Smash Bros.-themed Nintendo Direct at 6pm Eastern. You can watch it live right here, or keep up with Kotaku for all the news as it happens.Read more...

Iron Galaxy and Volition team up for some big time brand synergizin'.

Iron Galaxy and Volition team up for some big time brand synergizin'.

If you don't want the bundle, however, you'll have to wait another week.

We first caught wind of an upcoming dual-GPU Hawaii graphics card this time last month when AMD teased us with its top-secret "Two is Better Than One" campaign. Although AMD didn't actually reveal anything, it was clearly planning a successor to the Radeon HD 7990, which is essentially two Tahiti dies on a single board, or in other words a pair of slightly underclocked Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition GPUs.Read more...

Pokémon, in first person, played with an Oculus Rift plus a 'virtual reality treadmill' called the Virtuix Omni—which allows you to walk around naturally in a game. This is the future, folks.Read more...

Your phone is capable of more things than you might realize—though some of the small, neat features the iPhone comes packaged with aren't well-advertised or explained. Read more...

The coveted limited edition Titanfall Xbox Controller sold out very quickly. Get it before it's gone again.Read more...

Say you're a video game developer. You get one of those annoying e-mail blasts from some corporate marketing firm that wants you to pay them for their vague services. Read more...

Before Pixar's 1995 classic won over the hearts of children and the grownups they dragged to the theater with them, protagonist Woody was a very different character. Read more...

We've seen portable retro consoles before, but this N64 mod is beautiful. Not only that, but it looks like there will be more of them on the way, so you just might be able to get one.Read more...

Yup, that's still a video game! And it'll be coming out this fall, according to Ubisoft.

Best Buy is running a very cool promotion that bundles a Logitech G Series mouse, keyboard, headset, and mousepad together for just 70 bucks. It's a sweet, very cheap deal for those looking to jump into the dedicated gaming peripheral space or anyone whose gear is getting old. These are quality products, and step-down versions of your favorite peripherals from our Co-Op series. [Best Buy]Read more...

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Rusty's Real Deal Baseball: The TAY Review • Where is the role playing in JRPGS? • My Time Celebrating International Tabletop Day! • Monument Valley: The TAY ReviewRead more...